Epidemic · Slayer

114 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 11 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 205 BPM
EPIDEMIC · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 20, 21, 22 and 17 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-103.

CHORUS
PART F
PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFCVS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Epidemic?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Epidemic hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Epidemic?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 20, 21, 22 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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